Mr Chibunna Patrick Umeibe, the convicted drug trafficker in the trial of DCP Abba Kyari and others, on Friday, said that a whistleblower from Brazil informed the police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) about their movement before they were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.
Umeibe made the disclosure during a cross examination by counsel to Kyari and two others, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne were the two drug peddlers who smuggled cocaine into the country from Ethiopia through Enugu Airport.
They were convicted and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to the three counts preferred against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Nwite had ordered that the three counts, which attracted two-year jail term each, would run concurrently following their plea bargain agreement with the anti-narcotic agency.
They also agreed to stand as NDLEA’s witness in the trial of the five suspended police officers of the IRT of the Inspector-General of Police headed by Kyari.
Other police officers include ACP Sunday Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu who are 2nd to 5th defendants respectively.
Although they were being charged alongside the convicts, they all pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them by the agency in the alleged cocaine deal.
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